Black & Veatch and Emerging Fuels Technology said they will join forces in improving the speed to market of alternative/renewable transportation fuel projects worldwide.
Under a broad cooperation agreement the companies will enable an easier, faster, cost effective and reliable path to implementation of gas to liquids projects. The agreement also covers projects that use a variety of other feedstocks. These include municipal solid waste, biomass and coal, often referred to as XTL.
Under the agreement, Black & Veatch will apply its expertise in modular and skid mounted design and standardization to develop and implement packaged designs for small-scale GTL plants and XTL plants. These packaged designs use repeatable, shop-fabricated modules that can be shipped by truck. The result is reduced project costs and timelines.
“We have reviewed numerous GTL/XTL technologies and found that EFT’s proprietary catalysts and process technology are very competitive over a broad range of applications,” said George Gruber, Vice President of Technology at Black & Veatch .
Gruber said the companies also have identified several cost and efficiency benefits from combining Black & Veatch’s proprietary gas processing and PRICO LNG based technologies with the EFT platform.
EFT’s proprietary Advanced Fixed Bed Fischer-Tropsch reactor/catalyst system can be applied to synthesis gas made from virtually any carbon-based feedstock.
The EFT platform also includes all related third party sublicenses needed to create a complete process package for a GTL plant, including a “freedom to operate” legal opinion.
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